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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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05/10/14. Annoying wordplay and stupid conceits make York's Star Inn The City an
intensely irritating place to eat, says Jay Rayner.
(, Fri 23 Jan 2015, 10:43, 1 reply, 10 years ago)
For here it comes, the selection of breads – served in a flat cap, ’cos it’s a Yorkshire restaurant, right? And in Yorkshire everything with a pulse wears a flat cap. Always and forever. Yorkshire people slip out of the womb wearing them. Did they buy new flat caps for the purpose? Or were they secondhand? I search the rim for a greasy tide mark. And once you’ve had the thought you can’t help but wonder whose head might have been in your bread basket. It was an absurd and rather unpleasant idea when the restaurant opened – as a number of people said – and it remains so now.
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